The national insurance broker McGriff has named Jimmy Conroy vice president and marketing account executive for its Birmingham-based energy practice. Conroy joins McGriff with almost 10 years in insurance, focused on renewable energy. Recently, he was vice president for a …
A competitor was killed in a crash on the first day of a rally race through a forest in western Maine, leading organizers to cancel the event`s second day. Erin Kelly, a 48-year-old woman from Marshall, Virginia, was killed Friday …
Connecticut`s attorney general has sued a for-profit nursing school and its owner, alleging they left hundreds of students in the lurch when the school abruptly closed its three campuses in the state in February while reaping millions of dollars in …
Christopher Ramos, 45, of Santa Rosa, California, was sentenced to four years in prison after an investigation by the California Department of Insurance reportedly found he stole more than $189,000 from consumers and left them uninsured. Ramos was convicted of …
In Windham, Vermont, a wooden A-frame house that normally evokes blustery winters sits on a roadway transformed by record rainfall into a river. Twenty miles away in Bridgewater, a man wades through waist-high waters clutching his belongings. In Montpelier, the …
Severe weather created when a stationary front trapped warm, humid air over Texas and the Southeast caused an estimated $5.5 billion in insured losses, Karen Clark & Co. said in a briefing in late June. KCC said there were dozens …
California ranked first in strengthening policies to enable widespread use of electric cars, trucks, and buses, according to a national scorecard that gives most states poor grades. The 2023 State Transportation Electrification Scorecard from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient …
The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California released its report on workers’ compensation losses and expenses for 2022. Key findings in the report include: Medical losses paid in 2022 were $4.4 billion, or 53 percent of total loss payments. …
Using chainsaws, heavy machinery and controlled burns, the Biden administration is trying to turn the tide on worsening wildfires in the U.S. West through a multi-billion dollar cleanup of forests choked with dead trees and undergrowth. Yet one year into …
The Washington State Department of Labor & Industries is proposing updated workplace safety rules for petroleum refineries designed to prevent catastrophic events like the 2010 explosion that killed seven workers at the former Tesoro refinery in Anacortes. The proposed update …
